autoimmune

See also: auto-immune

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew

Proto-Indo-European *tó-

Proto-Hellenic *autós

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.

Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)

Ancient Greek τόν (tón)

Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)

Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)lbor.

English auto-

Proto-Indo-European *mey-

Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.

Proto-Italic *moinos

Latin mūnus

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.?

Proto-Italic *-is

Latin -is

Latin in- -is

Latin immūnisder.

Middle French immunbor.

Middle English

English immune

English autoimmune

From auto- + immune.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɔːtəʊɪˈmjuːn/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

autoimmune (not comparable)

1. (pathology, immunology) Of or pertaining to autoimmunity.
   • 2012 June 1, Darja Kanduc, “Peptide cross-reactivity: the original sin of vaccines”, in Frontiers in Bioscience: Scholar Edition‎^[1], volume 4, number 4, IMR Press, →DOI, →PMID, page 1395:

     The massive usage of the same peptide blocks in microbial and human proteomes inficiates any causal relationship(s) between sharing of microbial amino acid motifs/structures and autoimmune reactions in humans.

   • 2022 June 1, Kristen Rogers, “What causes alopecia, a ‘devastating’ hair loss condition affecting Jada Pinkett Smith”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Pinkett Smith has shared publicly that she has alopecia areata, addressing her and other patients’ experiences during her June 1 episode of “Red Table Talk,” her Facebook Watch show. Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss on the scalp and elsewhere, according to the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.

Derived terms

• neuroautoimmune
• nonautoimmune

Related terms

• autoreactive

Translations

of or pertaining to autoimmunity

• Arabic: مَنَاعِيّ ذَاتِيّ (manāʕiyy ḏātiyy)
• Bulgarian: автоиму́нен (avtoimúnen)
• Catalan: autoimmune (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自身免疫的 (zìshēn miǎnyì de)

• Czech: autoimunitní
• Danish: autoimmun (da)
• Dutch: auto-immuun (nl)
• Faroese: sjálvórinin, sjálvórins-
• Finnish: autoimmuuni-
• French: auto-immun (fr)
• Galician: autoinmune (gl)
• German: autoimmun (de)
• Hungarian: autoimmun (hu)
• Indonesian: autoimun
• Irish: uath-imdhíonachta
• Italian: autoimmune (it)
• Japanese: 自己免疫の (jikomen'eki no)
• Korean: 자가 면역(自家免疫)의 (jaga myeonyeog-ui)
• Norwegian: autoimmun
• Portuguese: autoimune (pt)
• Romanian: autoimun (ro)
• Russian: аутоиммунный (ru) m (autoimmunnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
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• Spanish: autoinmune, autoinmunitario
• Swedish: autoimmun (sv)
• Turkish: otoimmün
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: hunanimíwn

Catalan

Etymology

From auto- +‎ immune.

Adjective

autoimmune (feminine autoimmuna, masculine and feminine plural autoimmunes)

1. autoimmune

Derived terms

• autoimmunitari
• autoimmunitat

Further reading

• “autoimmune”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Italian

Etymology

From auto- +‎ immune.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw.to.imˈmu.ne/
• Rhymes: -une
• Hyphenation: au‧to‧im‧mù‧ne

Adjective

autoimmune m or f by sense (plural autoimmuni)

1. (pathology, immunology) autoimmune

Related terms

• autoimmunità
• autoimmunizzazione